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http://dx.doi.org/10.9728/dcs.2012.13.4.575

Mobile SNS Application Accessibility Evaluation for the Disabled and the Aged  

Hong, Mee-Hee (숙명여자대학교 멀티미디어과학과)
Park, Hwa-Jin (숙명여자대학교 멀티미디어과학과)
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Journal of Digital Contents Society / v.13, no.4, 2012 , pp. 575-582 More about this Journal
Abstract
Mobile SNS like facebook is famous as an app which users cooperate others and share information without regard to time and place. But it is necessary to evaluate the mobile app accessibility in view of the disabled and the aged to check if they get appropriate interface service to use such a popular app. Mobile app accessibility is an indicator of equal opportunity to mobile app for all users regardless of cognitive and physical attribute. Therefore, this paper evaluates accessibility of facebook and kakaotalk mobile SNS, apprehend the status of conform to the manual, and suggest an improving way, based on 'mobile application accessibility guideline' announced by government and 'mobile application (Android) accessibiliy checking manual(v1.0)' by National Information society agency.
Keywords
mobile SNS; mobile app accessibility;
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